Oh wow, I guess I'll be avoiding the Kevin Smith Batman!

Also, Vonskippy, this blog is called NeatoGeek. Are you sure you're in the right place?

Because he's the psychic from that episode!

This guy is instantly likable.

First, mash up a banana. Then, cram it into the deluxe food printer. Next, the food printer will actually print out a banana! AMAZING!

Seriously though, I quite like the concept. Just add a voice command function and I'm sold.

"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."

"It's a single atom of Jumbonium, an element so rare the nucleus alone is worth more than fifty thousand dollars!"

"How much more?"

"A hundred thousand!"

@Michelle

Yes! I remember that video.

Here's the youtube link, just in case anyone else is thinking of getting paid to put on their pants.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K-vwzozpwE

I went kayaking at a bay in Newport Beach, California a few weeks ago and saw two people doing this.

I thought it was just something the local surfers did to get to the open ocean rather than having to walk or drive there with their surfboards. I didn't think it was a form of recreation in and of itself (though it did look fun)! Interesting.

I love that we live in a time where robot exoskeletons are plausible.

This thing looks too slow to be practical for significant walking, but hopefully that's an easy fix!

Don't you mean C.S.?

It's a start! Hopefully this type of thinking will become the standard.

Simply reducing our meat/dairy consumption would do the most good. It takes more water to grow JUST hay and alfalfa (cattle feed)than all vegetable and fruit orchards combined. Not to mention the fact that grazing land can be put to much, much better use.

But hey, if they're gonna have a dairy farm, they might as well turn poop into profit.

Some of you need to understand that he's using lolcats as an example. It's a small part of an increasingly broad trend. He's not saying that someone who makes a lolcat is more "evolved" than someone who doesn't. However, as this creative and intellectual output becomes more common, we advance as a society.

More and more people are creating their own websites, posting youtube video projects, and updating their own blogs. The amount of untapped potential for what we do with our spare time is astounding. Sure, some blogs are about mundane daily activities, but others promote physics, art, or history. All of them are better than simply plopping oneself in front of the TV.

Think about it historically. How do we advance? If 100% of our waking hours are devoted to survival (as they once were), there's little or no room for invention, science, culture, etc. As our agricultural techniques improved, social stratification followed. Segments of the population became wealthy and no longer needed to spend the entire day working with their hands.

The sons and daughters of these rich men had ample free time (what he's calling "cognitive surplus") to create, to observe, and to ponder the nature of the universe. They were the Aristotles and Michelangelos. They drove humanity forward. That very same cognitive surplus is still at work.

You might scoff at his use of lolcats in this context, but you'd be missing the point entirely.

Burn victim Hello Kitty... hmmm.

I have no idea what Friendly's is, but I'd definitely try this once (and only once).

I love how silly goose follows them around and just camps out with them at the end. It didn't even back away in that crowd of people. Cute!

“We also made a special friend in the process. Her name is Orange Bill and she’s a goose. You will agree that she clearly has a future in music videos.”

@R2K

Hah, well said.